protochlorophyllide
Sign in to savethumb|The Arabidopsis thaliana|Arabidopsis mutant (FLU), unable to control biosynthesis of protochlorophyllide, glows red in the blue light.
Research
971 papers- Light dependent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase: a succinct look.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2024
- Evolution of light-independent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase.Protoplasma · 2019
- Protochlorophyllide spectral forms.Pakistan journal of biological sciences : PJBS · 2010
- Protochlorophyllide reduction: mechanisms and evolutions.Photochemistry and photobiology · 2003
- Light-Dependent Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase: Phylogeny, Regulation, and Catalytic Properties.Biochemistry · 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 905.5073012079099
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- isomeric SMILES
- C=CC1=C2C=C3N=C(C=C4N=C5C(=C4C)C([O-])=C(C(=O)OC)C5=C4[N-]C(=CC(=N2)C1=C[O-])[C@@H](C)[C@@H]4CCC(=O)OC/C=C(\C)CCC[C@H](C)CCC[C@H](C)CCCC(C)C)C(CC)=C3C.[Mg+2]
- chemical formula
- C₅₅H₆₉MgN₄O₆⁻
- canonical SMILES
- C=CC1=C2C=C3N=C(C=C4N=C5C(=C4C)C([O-])=C(C(=O)OC)C5=C4[N-]C(=CC(=N2)C1=C[O-])C(C)C4CCC(=O)OCC=C(C)CCCC(C)CCCC(C)CCCC(C)C)C(CC)=C3C.[Mg+2]
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4 sectionsContents
- Conversion to chlorophyll
- Potential danger for plant
- Biosynthesis regulatory protein FLU
- References
thumb|The Arabidopsis thaliana|Arabidopsis mutant (FLU), unable to control biosynthesis of protochlorophyllide, glows red in the blue light.
Protochlorophyllide, or monovinyl protochlorophyllide, is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of chlorophyll a. It lacks the phytol side-chain of chlorophyll and the reduced pyrrole in ring D. Protochlorophyllide is highly fluorescent; mutants that accumulate it glow red if irradiated with blue light. In angiosperms, the later steps which convert protochlorophyllide to chlorophyll are light-dependent, and such plants are pale (chlorotic) if grown in the darkness. Gymnosperms, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria have another, light-independent enzyme and grow green in the darkness as well.